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History Focus: The Maya Civilization  Heavy focus on History skills and becoming “History Detectives”  Children generating questions to explore during the topic; at the start and throughout History lessons

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Skills Covered from new National Curriculum  Ask questions about the past  Suggest suitable sources of evidence for historical enquiries  Use evidence to find answers to questions about the past  Use more than one source of evidence for historical enquiry in order to gain a more accurate understanding of history  Describe the social, ethnic, cultural or religious diversity of past society.

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Next Steps:  Children to use a range of sources to find answers to their enquiries, including some key dates  Put together a class ‘Maya Timeline’ on washing line